Writing Rogues : The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Formation, 1921-1938 / Cassio de Oliveira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oliveira, Cassio de, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Characters and characteristics in literature.

Marginality, Social, in literature.

National characteristics, Russian, in literature.

Picaresque literature, Russian--History and criticism.

Picaresque literature, Russian.

Rogues and vagabonds in literature.

Russian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian fiction.

Storytellers in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queens University Press, [2023]

Summary:

In Writing Rogues de Oliveira sheds light on the picaresque and its marginal characters - rogues and storytellers - who populated the Soviet Union on paper and in real life. The picaresque afforded authors the means to articulate and reflect on the Soviet collective identity, a class-based utopia that rejected imperial power and attempted to deemphasize national allegiances.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One Wartime Autobiographies

1 Ehrenburg's and Shklovsky's Autobiographies as Self-effacement

2 Travels and Travails in Julio Jurenito and A Sentimental Journey

Part Two The NEP-Era Rogue and the Idea of Soviet Literature

3 From Odessa to Petrograd

4 Grabber, Kynik, and Thief

Part Three The Soviet Picaresque and the Stalinist Rogue

5 Travelling and Building Stalin's Soviet Union

6 "In Every Life There Is at Least One Interesting Plot"

Conclusion The Picaresque and the Ways of the World

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: de Oliveira, Cassio Writing Rogues

ISBN:

9780228015079

0228015073

9780228015062

0228015065

OCLC:

1356572350